8 films to see when we suffer insomnia

sbu (25)in #film • 8 years ago (edited)

There are nights when you can't sleep. Even breathing deeply 20 times, or counting furry animals, or readubg the latest book by Ken Follet of 2 million pages, neither with valerian or home remedies... When there is no way, or our essence is that of the nocturnal animals, maybe we can try to see some of these films suitable for desperate sleepless nights. Let us invoke morfeo through cinema, to see if he gives us good result.
Sweet Dreams. Or happy sleeplessness!

Tu Dors Nicole, Stéphane Lafleur
It's a feeling that you can't repeat never again in life: to have 16, 18, 20 years and a whole summer ahead. It is a mixture of excitement and boredom: "I am free but I do not know what to do with my freedom". It expresses that feeling well Tu dors Nicole, the Atlantis Film Fest offers within the Atlas section. The summer in this film and in life, is a state of mind: it is not possible to reach this summer lassitude at another time of year. Boredom also is an important part of life; bored need to find ourselves. Assured sleep.
I can't sleep, Claire Denis
The same thing happens to these one than to us and no wonder with which they have mounted since the beautiful Daiga has emigrated from Lithuania to Paris and are looking for a place to live and a job. Theo is a struggling musician and his brother Camille a transvestite dancer. One of these characters can be connected to a serial murderer who is terrorizing Paris. Try to relax...
Cementery of Splendour, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
In a small town in Thailand, twenty soldiers suffer a strange case of sleeping disease. An abandoned elementary school turns into a small hospital where Jenjira Widner, a woman of middle-aged married to Frank, a retired US soldier, cares for them. Jenjira gets special affection for Itta, a young soldier who has no relatives. Ghosts, love, fear and beautiful poems. Who gives more?
Waking life, Richard Linklater
An anonymous protagonist in talks with different people who seem to get in and out of his life arbitrarily. A phrase, "dream is destiny", expresses the basic idea of the film: daring to enter the uncontrollable world of dreams, as exciting as disturbing and dark, and allow to fully enjoy the eternal moment it lasts. Here we can already go crazy.
Night on earth, Jim Jarmusch
Film divided into separate stories through which Jim Jarmusch presents the night panorama of five major cities (LA, NY, Paris, Rome and Helsinki), with a taxi, and what it takes place from dusk till dawn the same day, and obviously with different characters, like wire. When beautiful Winona Ryder, appears, or you fall rendered or you forget everything and sleep all night.
Night travelers, Kathryn Bigelow
A young cowboy, seduced by a new girl in town, discovers that he has been bitten by a vampire. Slowly, he becomes a creature of the night, a race made up of men and women who wander aimlessly, feeding on the blood of their victims. Faced with these zombies vampires, only one thing: "pray that out daylight."
The Forbidden Room, Guy Maddin
The crew of a submarine, a game of fearsome bandits in the forest, a famous surgeon and a battalion of child soldiers. All receive more than they expected, and they make their way towards progressive ideas about life and love. The romance and surrealism are our allies to fall into a deep sleep.
After hours, Martin Scorsese
What a night the one that lives a solitary one from a company computer employee leaving work. He will be involved in a series of strange circumstances lead one of the worst neighborhoods in New York. There, he will live a long and wild night. For fans of black comedy and fascinating urban adventures.